degrees of latitude and longitude, an uphill and a downhill, made by
the convexity of the globe, we, perhaps, may have reached the meridian
of the great voyage, and may have begun to feel the inclination which
will set us forward more swiftly to the end. The power of the great
consummation will be waxing stronger and stronger. Men are looking to
the cemeteries as places where great treasures went down, or were
abandoned, and they begin to think that some great restoration awaits
them. These costly and beautiful cemeteries, which men are preparing,
are like Hiram's contributions to the building of the temple; they
foretell some great thing; they have a look not only of expectation, but
of design, not merely of faith, but of hope. With a truly liberal regard
to the decoration of those burial places with costly works of general
interest, in the department of art, we shall do well to make provision,
by statute, for the perpetual repair and preservation of every
enclosure, and every grave, the whole body corporate thus pledging
itself, as far as possible, to each incumbent, that his last resting
place shall be the care of the perpetuated fraternity to the end of
time. And when the prophecies are accomplished, and the stone cut out of
the mountain without hands has filled the earth, and the apostasy which
is to follow the general prevalence of religion, has deluged the world
with blood, and Satan, loosed a little season, is triumphing in his
maddened career, and the
